ravenous
Extremely hungry, and ready to eat greedily.
ravenous in a sentence
- After the ten-mile hike, the scouts were ravenous and ate every sandwich in sight.
- The ravenous caterpillar munched through every leaf on Nan's prize cabbage.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to ravenous?
- Afull
- Bstuffed
- Csatisfied
- Dstarving
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D: starving. The other three mean the opposite of ravenous.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to ravenous?
- Ahungry
- Bfull
- Cstarving
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B: full. The other three mean nearly the same as ravenous.
Words that mean something similar
starving, hungry
Words that mean the opposite
full, satisfied, stuffed
More words about emotions & feelings
- reassure: To comfort someone and make them feel less worried.
- rejoice: To feel or show great happiness.
- relish: To enjoy something very much.
- reluctant: Not wanting to do something.
- remorse: A deep feeling of sorrow for something wrong you have done.
- repent: To feel truly sorry for something wrong you have done.
- resent: To feel angry about something because it seems unfair.
- savour: To enjoy something slowly so the pleasure lasts as long as possible.
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test